Music Classes

Private Music Lessons

Totts Gap Arts Instutute offers both private lessons and summer music camps for both young and old. Our staff of proffesionals has years of experience, having taught hundreds of students to play and enjoy music.
And now we're offering a new group Rock Band Class. Call for private piano, guitar, drums, woodwinds and voice.

Rock Band
Instructor: Andy Rabbat
Beginners: Saturday Mornings 10-Noon
Intermediate/Advanced: 1pm -3pm
Tired of practicing alone in your room? Learn to jam with others in a safe setting with an experienced teacher. Work on building solos, timing, and performance skills while working on classic rock tunes.

Andy Rabbat holds a B.A. in Music from New York University. He is the founder of Andy's Family Music Center and School of Music in Livingston, NJ now in its 20th year. With a vast teaching experience we are proud to have Andy directing the Music program.

Our Music Faculty:
Bill Goodwin, Drums
Born: Los Angeles, California - January 8, 1942
An almost completely self-taught drummer, Bill attributes his early interest in the drums to Shelly Manne's playing on the movie soundtrack of “The Man with the Golden Arm.” Before that he had taken piano lessons and studied the tenor saxophone. His father's extensive record collection gave him the opportunity to hear and learn songs, and he still hears the form of the music first. From 1959 to the present, Goodwin has been a professional drummer, playing with the likes of Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, Jim Hall, George Shearing and Bobby Hutcherson, and singers such as June Christy, Joe Williams, Roseanna Vitro, Tony Bennett and Manhattan Transfer. The drum chair with Gary Burton brought him to the East Coast in 1969. After a three year stint with Burton's group Bill settled down in an old farmhouse in the Poconos and worked the resorts. It was there that he and bassist Steve Gilmore became a team. Goodwin, like Gilmore, is a charter member of The Phil Woods Quartet (now Quintet), joining at it's inception in February 1974.
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
* Hal Galper: WILD BIRD; INNER JOURNEY; DREAMSVILLE
* Tom Waits; NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER
* Gary Burton/Stephane Grappelli: PARIS ENCOUNTER
* GARY BURTON & KEITH JARRETT
* Tom Harrell: VISIONS*; UPSWING*
* Phil Woods Quartet: THE NEW PHIL WOODS ALBUM; LIVE FROM THE SHOWBOAT; SONG FOR
* SISYPHUS; I REMEMBER; LIVE, VOLUME I*; MORE LIVE*;
* BIRDS OF A FEATHER*; AT THE VANGUARD*; LIVE FROM NEW YORK*
* Phil Woods Quintet: INTEGRITY; BOP STEW; BOUQUET; HEAVEN*; GRATITUDE*; FLASH*; ALL
* BIRD'S CHILDREN*; FULL HOUSE*; AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER *;
* THE PHIL WOODS QUINTET PLAYS THE MUSIC OF JIM McNEELY*;
* MILE HIGH JAZZ*
* Phil Woods' Little Big Band: EVOLUTION*; REAL LIFE; THIS IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT QUINCY
* THE PHIL WOODS QUARTET/QUINTET 20TH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM*
* Bill Goodwin: SOLAR ENERGY*; NETWORK*; NO METHOD*;
* THREE IS A CROWD*

*Produced by Bill Goodwin

Vicki Doney ( nee McClure): Sang “reach Out and Touch” before an estimated TV audience o 2.5 billion people during the Opening Ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. In 1986 as a member of the LA Jazz Choir, she was a featured soloist on the Grammy-nominated album “From All Sides”.

Vicki has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra and has sung the National Anthem for the LA Dodgers, the LA Rams, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia 76 ‘ers and California Angels. She recorded and performed with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, and the Les Brown Band of Renown. Her TV and film credits include: Ally McBeal, the New Charlie’s Angels, Why do Fools Fall in Love, and School House Rock! Dvd. She sang on the NBC show “100 Star Salute” honoring Lucille Ball.

In 2001, Vicki married Pianist/Composer/Producer Eric Doney and moved to Pen Argyl, PA. She released her second CD, “Natural Woman” on Pacific St. Records, with Eric. It also features Bob Dorough, Will Lee, and Phil Woods. In 2007, whe performed and recorded the premier of “The Children’s Suite”, a jazz suite written and arranged by Phil Woods with the poetry of A.A. Milne.

Vicky is a member of the Pocono Choral Society and performs every Monday night in Manhattan with the Howard Williams Jazz Orchestra. She recently recorded “Live at the Deer Head Inn: Just Friends” with Will Galison, Greg Eicher and Jimmy Waltich.